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Best Answer: It has the same basic pattern as a traditional typewriter. It is called QWERTY for the upper keys struck with fingers of the left hand. Since a lot data has been entered by secretaries, the keyboard remains. A good typist does not look at the keys, but knows their positions. It is much faster than hunt and peck.

There have been other patterns tried. Some are potentially faster than QWERTY, since it favors left handed people. But it persists because that is the system most people have been trained on and it would be too confusing to have various styles in a work environment or do extensive retraining.

By the way typewriters were designed to slow down right handed people, because the original mechanical ones jammed more often if the more commonly used keys were on the right side.

First cam the Dvorak layout. But since in old typewriters each letter had a prong that would fly forward, fast typers would get them jammed.

To reduce jams, our common keyboard layout, called the QWERTY layout after the top row, was developed that spaced common letters out over left and right hands, and slowed people down.

The Dvorak layout is experiencing a comeback since it allows people to type faster and we no longer have the physical jamming problem on computers. I know some people who use it, and I think you can change your computer to it.

I don't know of any alphabetical layouts. Alphabetical arrangements would probably be pretty arbitrary for typing efficiency.

The original QWERTY keyboard was developed in the days of manual typewriters. The early type arms would jamb together if the typist was too fast, so the keys were arranged to make it less likely for that to happen. The QWERTY keyboard, inefficient as it is, has found its' way into the computer era. A case of tradition and application being carried forward for no good reason other than that's the way it used to be done, so lets keep doing it.

When the keypad that we use now was designed, it was back in the days of typewriters. The keys were arranged so that the type arms (the little arms with the letter stamps on them that actually printed the letters on the paper) would not get tangled together while typing. It also was designed in a way so that the letters we type the most would be the easiest for our fingers to hit. Hope this helps!

I believe they are in the QWERTY fashion because those letters are arranged and on each set of key rows, because of how much those alphabet letters are used in writing. Just a wild imaginative guess from outer space.